I'm not sure. On the main AppleTV menu, I went to the Launcher menu and selected Downloads. Next I clicked on your latest build. It finished downloading, but when it tried to launch I got that error. Is there a file I can check that will tell you what's happening?

For whatever reason, neither xbmc-9.04_update_sshcs.sh or XBMC_OSX_30130.tgz would download to the AppleTV using wget. I downloaded those files manually and moved them over to the frontrow folder with WinSCP.

It worked! So it looks like the only problem right now is with that XBMCLauncherDownloads folder. Not that I really know what I'm talking about, but it seems like the folder needs to be created first before XBMC.dmg can be extracted into it.

It seems like you've fixed the other problem(s), so I think that's the only one left. I assume Davilla would be able to tell you how to fix that last one. Sorry I can't help! I'm not a programmer, but I have some experience tinkering with XBMC on AppleTV. Like they say, I know just enough to be dangerous!

I appreciate the time you're putting into this so that AppleTV users can be on the bleeding edge as well!

Wow after trying for about 2 hours I finally got a new version of xbmc on my apple tv! All thanks to your post above KevinSartori. I had to copy over the files manually and create the XBMCLauncherDownloads folder like you described but I ran into one problem which took me ages to solve. It seems that in unofficial build 30163 the tgz file contains "XBMC_for_mac.dmg" instead of "XBMC.dmg". I extracted it, changed the name, then compressed it again. Finally worked. Thanks also to the TheQuestor for the builds, hopefully you can solve the problems. Now to try this dds stuff to see how it improves performance on apple tv.

I wish I knew how to help TheQuestor with that final piece of the puzzle. Hopefully, Davilla will pop into this thread at some point and help out.

tuckbodi, I do have it working for AppleTV. You can read my earlier posts to see what needs to be done, although at this point, I think all you really need to do is create a XBMCLauncherDownloads folder in /Users/frontrow/Library/Caches/ on your AppleTV (with WinSCP or similar) before starting the update in Launcher --> Downloads. CrystalHD is working. Well, as well as it currently works, that is...

I wish I knew how to help TheQuestor with that final piece of the puzzle. Hopefully, Davilla will pop into this thread at some point and help out.

tuckbodi, I do have it working for AppleTV. You can read my earlier posts to see what needs to be done, although at this point, I think all you really need to do is create a XBMCLauncherDownloads folder in /Users/frontrow/Library/Caches/ on your AppleTV (with WinSCP or similar) before starting the update in Launcher --> Downloads. CrystalHD is working. Well, as well as it currently works, that is...

Out of curiousity Kevin, are you able to get skins working with the newer builds? I can only see confluence and pm3 in the options even though I copied other skins to the addons folder. I'm trying to make a skin you see.

I kind of wish I had the knowledge to actually write a script
the script may pull from my site, but its not my script nor is it hosted on my site All that is hosted on my site is an XML file that that script reads from.

Roders Wrote:Out of curiousity Kevin, are you able to get skins working with the newer builds? I can only see confluence and pm3 in the options even though I copied other skins to the addons folder. I'm trying to make a skin you see.

I have the following working well with 28000+ on my site in the skins section:
Transparency!
Aeon
Alaska
Basics-Vision
Backrow

I'll try to finish converting the other 20+ skins this weekend.

Kind of sucks that I now have to keep 2 distinct sets of skins but hopefully I can drop all non 28000+ skins in the next month or 3 Then I only should have to deal with Xbox compatible and 28000+ compatible. But for now at least I'll try to keep them all updated as best I can. Especially since the skins are such a moving target right now.

anyway. like i said i should have all 23 skins converted over this weekend.

Plus gonen was able to get 'export watched data' script working as well and that will be on my scripts section tonight.

Keep up the great work oh great devs of yore! Even if keeping up with all the changes is driving me bananas

Roders Wrote:Out of curiousity Kevin, are you able to get skins working with the newer builds? I can only see confluence and pm3 in the options even though I copied other skins to the addons folder. I'm trying to make a skin you see.

Transparency! is my skin of choice. I downloaded the lasted SVN build of Transparency! and put it in a folder called:

skin.transparency

and then moved that folder over to:

Users/frontrow/Applications/XBMC.app/Contents/Resources/XBMC/addons

Once that was done, I had to restart XBMC to get Transparency! to show up as a selectable option. Works great! I've found that transferring hundreds of files over with WinSCP is very slow. Your best bet is to ZIP the skin folder you want to extract over first and then transfer that. Once you've transferred the .ZIP file over, open up PuTTY and enter:

cd "Applications/XBMC.app/Contents/Resources/XBMC/addons"

and then:

unzip "skin.transparency.zip"

Obviously, replace "skin.transparency.zip" with whatever you named the .ZIP file. Make sure you ZIP up the folder itself and not the contents or you'll make a mess of your addons directory! Don't forget to delete the .ZIP file with WinSCP after you've extracted it with PuTTY.

Looking at that addons directory, it looks like the naming structure for skins is "skin.name of skin", so if you want to install, say, Alaska, make sure the folder is called: